One of the areas of study that has been instrumental in the advancement of human societies has been in the area of agriculture and food production. Now, speaking of agriculture and food production, there has never been more contribution than any other field than agricultural engineering. Not only does the field of agricultural engineering been in the forefront of food production but it was also responsible for advancements in food processing and creation of agricultural structures.

Actually, agricultural engineering is a combination of various different branches of scientific studies such as plant biology, animal biology, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering and electrical engineering, and so that’s why it has been able to do all those technological marvels that has greatly solved the problem of feeding billions of people. Students of this course should expect lots of engineering, chemistry and crop and animal science subjects.

The scope of agricultural engineering is very broad as it can function to plan and design agricultural machinery and as well as agricultural structures for the sole purpose of increasing productivity. Thanks to agricultural engineers, they had been responsible for coming up with those harvesting machines that just sweeps up a field of wheat or sugar canes and finishes the job in half a day with just an operator of the machine as the only man to do it whereas those doing it manually would have taken 3 days and how many farms hands just to do a simple harvesting job. Structures like cold storage which have made seasonal fruits and vegetables available when they are out of season are also among those structures that an agricultural engineer has had a hand with.

Since crop production is one of the main purposes why agricultural engineering was founded, seeding, tilling and irrigation would rightly fall on their domain. In almost any country where topography and climate are different, it is the job of agricultural engineer to design particular irrigation systems that would fit the needs of a specific country or place. Like for example in a lowland and highland farming, the type of irrigation system would be very much different as the sources of water would vastly differ for both places. On the subject of irrigation, agricultural engineers are also finding out ways on how to better conserve water and as well as the soil itself. Flood control and even designing a dam are one of the grandest projects an agricultural engineer could undertake.

Agricultural engineers would also be involved in animal production as animals also fall to the category of food sources. More often, there are also a lot of agricultural engineers that have handled caring and processing of cattle, poultry and fish production technology-wise. Extraction of dairy from the cows with the use of machines has now been being employed in advanced countries and as well as the derivatives like cod liver oil and whatever chemicals extracted from farm animals for commercial consumption.

Well, of course, expertise of an agricultural engineer would have to come from one’s work experience as the field is too broad to master it all. To become truly an authority in any one of the fields available for students of agricultural engineers, one has really have to have the dedication and never stop taking further studies up to a doctorate degree.

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